2018–2019 Season
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Fall 2018
Guelfenbein, Carla (Sep 25)
Fountain, Ben (Oct 6)
Revell, Donald (Nov 6)
Spring 2019
Phillips, Patrick (Feb 5)
Francis, Vievee (Mar 5)
Messud, Claire (Apr 1)
Next Reader
Patrick Phillips
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
February 5, 2019, 5:00 PM
Patrick Phillips is the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, which won an American Book Award, and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Smithsonian. He has also published three poetry collections: Chattahoochee, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize; Boy; and Elegy for a Broken Machine, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Phillips teaches writing and literature at Stanford University.